Ó Bhéal reads at The pSoken Wrod with visiting poets from Coventry

Ó Bhéal: Cork's Weekly Poetry Event followed the Pied Piper Paul Casey to The pSoken Wrod DeBarra's Folk Club, #Clonakilty, with visiting poets from #Coventry, Andrea Mbarushimana and Russ Berry. They had read the previous evening at Ó Bhéal.

As part of the tradition of the twinning between Cork and Coventry each year writers from Cork visit Coventry and vice versa. Later this year Stan Notte and Ciaran Joseph Mel MacArtain will make the return journey to Coventry.

2017 Cork-Coventry Twin Cities Poetry exchange, in association with Silhouette Press & Cork Arts

More words on this event at The pSoken Wrod

Paul Casey

Andrea Mbarushimana

Moze M. Jacobs interviewing Russ Berry

Writers from five County Cork Libraries read at West Cork Literary Festival, Bantry 2017

Thanks to Cork County Library & Arts Service, Writer-in-Residence Denyse Woods and Bantry Library for hosting a reading of writers from Bantry, Clonakilty, Cobh, Macroom and Charleville on the final day of the West Cork Literary Festival 2017.  The readers representing the five writing groups were:  Avril Casey, Anne Dineen, Sean Cottrell, Laura O'Mahony, John O'Riordan, Mary Bradford, Bernadette Gallagher, Hilary Beausang, Linda Waller and Kerri FitzGerald.

Thanks to Mary Angland for this group photo.

Denyse Woods, Writer-in-Residence, Cork County Library & Arts Service.

West Cork Literary Festival 2017

I will be reading along with other writers in Bantry Library from 5pm Friday 21st July at the final event of the West Cork Literary Festival 2017.  This reading is organised by Denyse Woods, writer-in-residence for Cork County Council Library & Arts Services.  Denyse is working with five writers groups in Bantry, Clonakilty, Cobh, Macroom and Charleville Libraries. 

I attend the writers group in Macroom Library where up to 10 writers meet monthly.  Denyse has brought a focus and structure to the group since getting involved earlier this year.  Each writer brings a unique voice with the majority writing prose.  I have challenged myself to write prose and on Friday will read one piece of prose along with a selection of poems.

I look forward to hearing all of the writers representing these groups.